Sheriff's office to participate in anti-drunken driving campaign

The Linn County Sheriff's Office will be focusing in keeping drunken drivers off the road in a statewide campaign beginning Dec. 26. (Journal file photo)

Press release

Beginning around Dec. 26 and continuing through Jan. 2, the Linn County Sheriff’s

Office will join many other law enforcement agencies across the state, including the Kansas

Highway Patrol, in the New Year’s "Taking Down DUI" traffic enforcement campaign.

The New Year’s holiday period outranks most of the other holidays in number of crashes in

which at least one of the drivers is impaired.

So, plan ahead. Leave your car at home and ride with a designated driver or take other

transportation services. If you are hosting a party, make sure everyone has a sober ride home.

If you see what appears to be an impaired driver, please call 911, you might just save a life.

“Keep in mind that if you are going to be using ANY impairing substance– don’t even consider driving," said Linn County Sheriff James Akes. "Line up a ride with a sober acquaintance or other safe transportation BEFORE you go out. Make the right choice, the sober choice, do it now.”